skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upvoted because it contains some interesting commentary, althought the "how to" part of the title is left vague, almost formless.
Fedora's Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox
> if Boeing goes out of business, we would be left with just one major manufacturer of passenger jets, and that's never a good thing.

Comac is getting to a point where it can give serious competition. This is corroborated by the fact that US has already established sanctions against them [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-comac-military-...
Every major bloc now has significant investments in reshoring indigenous semi capabilities, policy discussions dance around the fact that diversifying would be Taiwan's doom. There is limited timeline where TSMC will serve as security shield for the island.

I see a lot of discussion here that US would glass TSMC fabs if China ever attempted takeover, when realistically China would be the ones to disrupt TSMC proactively and prematurely if PRC indigenous semi industry reaches useful levels. Catching up to EUV is much harder than undermining it. Chinese military modernization = the first island chain strategy is dead. Taiwan never got security guarantee precisely because other strategy to contain China existed (malacca / sloc chokepoint), TSMC dominance is an aberration that no one apart from Taiwan is interested in. Hence I wonder how smooth the Arizona plant will go, possibly foxconn Wisconsin redux, but more pressing.
It most definitely does not cost nothing. The whole point here is that the Tier 1s price-gouge everyone else, and from there everything is far more expensive than it needs to be.

Prices only go up from there.

Cheaper plans sold by smaller outfits are likely being sold to end users through 2-3 layers of resellers. This creates a tug-of-war between multiple resale overheads and customer interest in something at a low price point, so the baseline of what is being offered (CPU, RAM, speed, monthly transfer) can get fairly wobbly.

For larger companies, to take Contabo as an example, they basically get to dictate whatever performance metrics they want, because they own the entire stack. So I might have more-or-less-unlimited 100Mbps and 6GB RAM, but CPU performance is... not great, I'm pretty sure my KVM instance winds up almost entirely swapped onto an HDD occasionally, and there are some really harsh QEMU disk I/O quotas.
Also check out Luna Display if you want to use another Mac as a display: https://astropad.com/product/lunadisplay/
In my mind the issue is payments. There is no reasonable way for me to pay a website a fraction of a cent for content, besides by viewing an ad. I'm hoping FedNow will help a bit with this in the US.
The choice which you are eliding is: eliminate malaria by killing all mosquitos; or, eliminate malaria's harmful effects on humans by implementing existing prevention methods which do not require that.
Thanks, yes it may start this week from the enthusiasm of a contributor we just met, he begin to help to port it to Typescript/Javascript.
Tibs the Great
How much is the new battery in Holland?
How did you get that conclusion?

CA is failing the homeless population.

Your conclusion should be reworded to say “A conservative against spending money on failed policies that don’t actually help the homeless? Color me shocked.”
Against wasted tax dollars. He’s against everything California stands for!!
I don't really understand... Does WhatsApp have a better UI? Why?

To me signal is the best UI, and WhatsApp looks like a child designed it. Especially with the horrid default colors and backgrounds.

But I don't really see a difference in UIs in most chat programs. There are only two types of UIs. Point-to-point (signal, WhatsApp, imessage, etc) and room based (irc, matrix, slack).

Their all so similar, I don't understand what is better or worse in Signal compared to WhatsApp.
see also: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-post...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42098216
This is coming from the perspective of someone working in platform engineering. The further down the stack you are, the more conservative (aka boring) you have to be, because the blast radius increases. Quoting another great post [0] on this: "The risk profile for infrastructure is different than the applications that run on top of that infrastructure."

[0] http://cloudscaling.com/blog/devops/continuous-delusion-at-t...
All Digital Signatures in One
Currently, right now, yes, more infrastructure and ancillary or innovation need to exist to support such adoption.

The big leap here is I see those parts also coming together. Some things in China, others in Germany or Poughkeepsie (http://compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com/2021/01/high-tech...) ...the constituent pieces are coming together just like they are with the e-ink smartphone... There's a few of them (hisense a7, facenote f1, kingrow, ky-01l, light phone), they kinda suck, but it's clearly the future - there just needs to be another year or two of development
Wolt has been the only delivery service that hasn’t let me down throughout 2020.

Time estimation is still the best, couriers are paid fairly well and I have not had a bad experience with one, support uses canned responses but solving is fast and without excuses.
I think you are misinterpreting my point. I am not saying it cannot be done. I am saying it has higher risk and we should not normalize it just because it gets stuff done. I would like you to actually address the point about the public issues posed by these setups like I pointed out in the COVID case.

Also, you said

> asked IT for VB.NET and were able to quickly proceed with the work that actually mattered to them

I have already addressed this.
> We just make it work not because its possible, but because nobody wants to go through the requisition forms.

Edit: Also just insisting that whatever makes it work should be used sounds like a carpenter who is proud of using a spoon as a hammer. Even if you are not a carpenter, I don't think anyone would feel good about using spoon as a hammer in a DIY project.
Making is show business now (2020)
Experts Identify the Currencies in which to profit from Investing in 2021
You’re against killing the plague? That’s silly.
I've tried this approach, and it's not great. You either have to pack a lot of noisy information in the JSON for the deserializer to work reliably, or you kludge it to try and guess, and then you find yourself designing your data structures around all the kludges.

You inevitably run the risk that your deserializer can, effectively, make arbitrary function calls. And your data is tied not only to your language, but also needs to find classes in specific modules.
They will most probably get a slap on the wrist in form of a fine.

List of highest fines:
https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2...
It's not that people don't care, it's that they've been put into a position where they have to care about other things more. The greatest threat for the average person isn't climate change, it's going broke. When you're living paycheck to paycheck, dumping every penny you earn into rent, food and (in the US) student loans and basic healthcare, are you really going to vote for the people who want to raise your taxes, ban the cheap crap you buy and regulate their employers who will pass the expense down to you in order to keep their margins high?

No, all of those things are immediate dangers to your ability to survive. Add to that the constant threats that terrorists/immigrants/communists... are "coming to destroy our freedoms/way of life" and people have so many more (both real and fake) threats looming over them that the distant and (to some) uncertain threat of climate change is basically at the bottom of their priority list.
Misleading headline, it says:
"WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update"

without single proof in article other than number of installs of competing apps

if you wanna show how many users Whatsapp LOST you must show how many users DELETED their Whatsapp account

just because someone install other app alongside Whatsapp means nothing and majority of these users will just return back to Whatsapp when this temporary hype dies

by this logic every major game loses millions of users after release of other major apps ignoring fact you can play more than one game and have them all installed
In a full scale war with China, I don't think TSMC's fab can be preserved. China can destroy it without landing on the island, easily.

Taiwan is too close to China, that is a reality. Plus, modern chipmaking is an incredible sophisticated business, for example, you need huge amount of electricity and raw materials imported overseas to sustain the fab. When the war breaks, all of that would end.

Their effort should be spent on to prevent the war from happening in the first place, that is the only way to 'win' the war.
Because people who need insurance are already suffering from a loss. Having to sue the insurance company for fraud would be just adding insult to injury, and would be unattainable for many people who cannot afford to open lawsuits. Pre-emptively putting mechanisms in place so you don't have to go to court to get your insurance claims handled makes insurance work with society.
It's not the assassin that kills, it's the knife /s
Morris Chang
There is some research that shows that done of these parasites may have the beneficial action of preventing autoimmune disease by modulating the immune system response. See the layman version [0] or a more scholarly version [1].

[0] https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2018.00032

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1618732/
It's possible that these are not overdue: there is (at least) a three month coronavirus extension available

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/companies-to-receive-3-mo...
Wow! This is great. Reminds me a pop-up book from 1984 (which I still own)

https://youtu.be/2NueRKhEwvY

The pop-up models were awesome, and explained the inner workings of a digital computer. It’s how I learnt to count in binary as a 7 year old kid.
I had a college professor who said CS actually stands for common sense. "If you don't develop a really good web of common sense, you will fail at computer science"

Often enough, the problem itself is easily solved. CS is all about how you approach the problem..
Ask HN: How can I help family that believes in vaccine hoaxes?
Some of the family members strongly believe in vaccine hoaxes (e.g. government will inject chips into our bodies) and it got so far that they might lose their job, because they believe in the hoax and refuse to get vaccinated.

I tried to reason with them and they don't seem to listen. They find most of their hoax resources online (Facebook groups and Youtube videos).

What else can I do?
Aviation is like software. "Safe" just means redundancies and failsafes. No plane is 100% safe because no plane has experienced all possible edge cases. Usually when a plane encounters a mechanical failure or experiences an incident (whether that be a crash or something less serious), it's because the plane was operating in a case that had never been considered or encountered before.

So no, I don't think every conceivable problem has been worked out because that's an impossibility. Unknown unknowns of aviation prevent that from ever occurring.

However, this plane in particular has had multiple independent regulators and thousands of independent pilots involved in the process to clear it. Additionally, pilots will receive new Max-specific training on the MCAS software so they'll be more aware of it and its operating modes from now on.

I would fly on a 737 Max and I'd have no problem taking family with me. You're more likely to be in a car accident by a substantial margin.
Interestingly there is no product on the markt to collect feature ideas and classify them. Kanban boards etc. Are nice, but if you store many ideas you will completely lose focus.

Ideas, which may or may not be implemented one day have so many dimensions: time required to build it, dependencies which must be built first, usefullness in several aspects, module the software needs to be implemented in and interacts with.

The best i have yet seen was a good crafted excel/airtable with a lot of columns. But deciding which one to build was again not easy as you could not see dependency chains etc.
> had two large disturbances in 2000 years

Your definition of "large disturbance" is pretty narrow. You missed things like the renaissance, the reformation (and subsequent proliferation of non-catholic faiths), the hundred year war, the thirty year war, two world wars, ...
This is the aerospace equivalent of trying to correct boomy room acoustics with an equalizer: Yeah you can do that, but like painting over a cracked wall it wont fix the underlying issue.

And like the painted cracked wall, it might be okay in 99 out of 100 cases, but that one case where it isn't might kill a hundred people.
https://neuralink.com/
I'm not so sure. I think this depends on the price difference between a flight with a Boeing and any other plane. Almost everybody has heard from the issues with Boeing, and if they can spend a few $ more to "feel safe", quite a few will do so I suppose. And with the already very small margins in the large-volume-budget-price segment, it'll be hard to reduce prices even more to counter that effect.

As soon as Boeing stays out of news for some period of time or if another airliner brand has a significant, newsworthy accident it will be forgotten though, I'd guess.
>Europe and the UK, where tipping is an optional gesture and not a form of the customer subsidising the restaurant's wage bill

Unfortunately, a lot of unscrupulous restaurant owners [in UK anyway] used it as exactly that. I worked in a restaurant kitchen, back when I was a student where the waiting staff's wages were risibly low and they were expected to supplement them with whatever they received as tips.

It actually changed my opinion on tipping a bit. Before getting this 'behind the scenes' insight, I'd never bothered leaving tips as I thought 'what's so special about waiters & waitresses that they're expected to get extra gratuities for doing their jobs, when the rest of us don't?'

I don't know if the situation has changed since then, as this was before the introduction of the minimum wage. But, back then, tipping was definitely used as a way of covering some of the wage bill.
Are we really really sure there won't be any unintended consequences to removing mosquitoes?
Apple IIs are surprisingly hardy but with one exception: there's a Rifa-branded line filter capacitor in the power supply that tends to blow but it's easy enough to replace (some say you can even just remove it).
How the spread of sheds threatens cities
Marking the title [PDF] may be useful. The link just downloads a 2 page PDF. It's not uninteresting reading, but I expect most people will expect a web page.
Internet as a Utility
An A320 already does much more crash-prevention than a 737 because of its FBW system. It’s impossible to stop someone who’s determined to crash the plane unless you make it fully autonomous.
It seems incorrect to me to treat mathematics as a science. Mathematical concepts are quite arbitrary in the sense that we choose definitions that suit our purposes. And mathematics isn't "observed" and studied empirically.
> Therefore start using signal and try to spread the word. E-Mail is an open Standard. Instant messaging can be too!

Is Signal even open source? Where is the server code for this patch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25803010 ?
First time hearing of miracle berry, will absolutely give it a shot. Here's some feedback about the idea, hopefully helpful. :)

Pricing seems really tough for me. In general my meals are around the £1-3/serving range, when cooking at home. adding 33-100% cost to my meals regularly is a deal breaker.

As a curiosity I'll absolutely be interested to try this out - probably as a lockdown tastetest "date night". To me, that is a much more viable niche for this product, and thus I'd be in the £10 range for the product.

You stress 30s versus minutes like that is a deal breaker. I'm not confident this as strong of a selling point as you think - at least not for me.

Site looks nice, and the free UK shipping is awesome!

> NATURAL

Please, as a neuroscientist - who therefore also studied biochemistry as part of their degree - don't use this word in this way. All things are natural (what is "unnatural"? Ectoplasm?) and you know that there is nothing inherently wrong or different about synthetic compounds.
You can quickly check if your flight is 737 Max on this website: https://maxornot.com
A startup which I joined years ago, I bootstrapped it from technology point of view and then hired people to help me push it further. After two years founder decided he needs to hire a project manager. The person he hired had very bad habit of badmouthing people behind their back and collecting everyone's failures so he could use that later as ammo. After another two years founder was kicked off by that manager. I was loyal to the founder so I was next on the list of people to go. This startup still operates on simple premise of finding yet another investment wave to slide on, almost if finding next investor was sole purpose of this startup.

But outside of this drama story that startup was a failure from day one simply because we was following the founder dream, not the market (I learned this over years, I was way too inexperienced when I was joining). Founder was deciding what features we need based on his "expert" knowledge. The problem was that at first glance all potential customers was saying how good the product was, but when it came to actually make use of it they could not really see the benefit.
Who Is Jed McCaleb?
It was tested by thousands of independent pilots, though. That doesn't mean it's "safe" but then you haven't defined what "safe" means to you. To me "safe" means extremely unlikely to encounter any incidents, not impossible.
Come on, samth! Charging money for a book is not inappropriate. But charging (a lot of) money for a very lousy book are just pathetic. Did you ever read any of Jesse Alama's books? Thank God you didn't. That guy is tipical Racket community parasite: he parasitizes on your efforts and pains by charging his bad books, thus destroying the reputation of the entire community who turns out unable to write a fair book on how to use racket in a practical way.

And yes, the documentation is poor. I'm experienced developer and could tell that. Check this mess: https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/stateless.html#%28pa...
WTF?
What makes centipedes harmful?
I'm probably one of a few people on HN who actually went across The Atlantic on a liner (not a repositioning cruise ship). My grandmother was too afraid to fly, so in the mid 60's we went to Germany (where my family is from) from New York on one of the last liners (I was too young to remember much). We also took a train from Michigan where we lived, so it was probably a lot like travel 50 years earlier.
There's a nice In Our Time episode on this, "1816, the year without a summer":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077j4yv
Even it were not for the MCAS problem, the 737 is the worst plane on the market -- it is hamstrung by 1960s design decisions, struggles to take off under good conditions, is loud on the inside and outside, etc.

Newer smaLl jets like the E195 and A220 are smaller on the outside but feel bigger on the inside the same way Japanese cars felt in the 1970s compared to American 'boats'; in the short term it is easy for airlines to keep with the 737 but because the business is a cosy duopoly passengers will be spending more in the long term, we will get more climate change, more noise at the airport,

Boeing doesnt have a real business plan unless it includes replacing the 737 someday. In particular Low Cost airlnes like Southwest have built businesses around airplanes designed for mainline airlines, if one of them got a plane designed for them it could turn the industry upside down.
Can we build an independently acting, benevolent AI and have him run for president?

We could have it interact with every citizen and act accordingly.

(I joke, but it couldn't be WORSE than the mess humans created.. right?)
I thought cars these days last 200k miles easy, probably 300k+ with minor repairs. At 15k miles per year, that should give at least 15 years of use, but I would hope the average was more 20+.
> you always have plenty of warning before you need to take over

This only has to be false once.

I'd also like to highlight that sometimes AP has frightening regressions. One case was labeled "barrier lust", where - on a divider - AP would follow the wrong white line, and steer the car towards a barrier. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8a0jfh/autopil...

It was fixed, after Walter Huang died through such a case.

Until the behavior returned some months later: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b36x27/its_bac...

So please be careful. Regardless of the value you put on your own life, car accidents impact more than just yourself.
Research shows that the US govt is essentially an oligarchy. The opinions of ordinary people simply don't count for the ruling elites. Yes its up to us to make more noise and put pressure on leaders.
Given the CO2 emissions from planes, should we be considering reintroduction of Sea Liners at least on some routes? Would anyone use them? Would they be cheaper / at all economical?

Maybe the benefit would be there if you could move with a ton of luggage wthout being overcharged for it?
Jitsu? https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi15/nsdi15...
> Because how else do you explain this madness: they spent three years developing a new version of Racket that et the end turned slower than the original!

This is just a blatant misunderstanding of what Racket on Chez is trying to do, and a very limited understanding of what “optimization” means for something as complex as a compiler/interpreter. The point of the Chez backend is to improve maintainability and portability, not to increase speed [1]. Racket used to have a custom Scheme interpreter with a lot of custom C that was difficult to work with, so instead a lot of that code was ported to Chez - easier for everyone, especially Racket devs, even if it might take a while to smooth out some of the (very modest) performance hits.

And since you’re obviously totally ignorant as to why Racket decided to do all this work, it makes it hard to take your rant seriously.

[1] https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/icfp19-fddkmstz.pdf
Usually "non-Euclidean" is used for Riemannian manifolds, so if something is not a Riemannian manifold, it is not called Euclidean or non-Euclidean.

Just like "irrational number", which is not any number that is not rational -- we still assume that it is a real number, so i or Aleph-Null are not considered irrational.

If we include teleport points in our metric, we no longer have a manifold (if teleports are one-way, not even a metric space). Similarly for Mountain Valley, or affine/projective manifolds that can be found in some games, it is wrong to call them Euclidean or non-Euclidean.

Anyway, originally "non-Euclidean" was just the hyperbolic plane (the only geometric structure which satisfies all the Euclid's axioms except the fifth), and then (depending on whom you ask) it was extended to also mean other situations which are different but similar in nature -- so spherical geometry (which is just the opposite), Nil/Solv geometry (which also play with parallel lines), but not cylinders, affine manifolds, teleports, taxicab metric, and so on (they don't really do anything interesting to parallel lines).
There is code on GitHub
https://github.com/pyston/pyston/tree/py3

Is it incomplete
This is really cool. I was curious about how much it would cost, this article seems like a decent breakdown of what the original article refers to as the Golden Age: https://www.gjenvick.com/OceanTravel/TravelGuide/04-CostOfEu...
How deals are going down in crypto VC
Can a Computer Be Moral?